A regular day in an old Soviet Ghost Town on Svalbard | PYRAMIDEN Part 2
oh my god this is creeping me out here it begins oh my god oh my god do we are in pyramiden the town that once was a booming coal mining village with a population of 1500 people is now a ghost town this video is the second part of our visit in this abandoned soviet town so do watch the first part to get a better idea of the history of pyramid there is something so eerie but at the same time fascinating being in this place all around you are these buildings that from the outside look perfect but on the inside are taken over by birds or covered in a thick layer of dust the town has become like a grand museum where you can walk through the streets and imagine what life must have been like here decades ago the grass was imported from ukraine the buildings feature soviet-era architecture and bear witness to the settlement's golden days christopher and i had an amazing lunch at the hotel and now after filling up with all that energy and russian beer from barnsburg it is time to hike the mine gallery this long wooden structure leads all the way up to the mine shaft at the top and i'm going up there alone well yeah grim is coming with me but i mean that is basically alone because that boy would leave me in a heartbeat if things got scary and i have a feeling things are gonna get scary so let's go hey hello you've been so bad but it's okay he has literally been screaming at a fox and we could hear the fox screaming back now we are heading to this one and i'm gonna hike up as far as i feel it is possible today and christopher's just gonna sit at the bottom i think so that is what we're doing right now look at this place in the middle of nowhere is like this beautiful kind of area and what they also did is they imported this grass from ukraine so they always tell you in the tours do not step on the grass because they want to keep it this way so they have like proper i also know that they had tulips at one point it's like the only place in svalbard or the arctic that they planted tulips and they survived in the summer it's so crazy to walk through like a full village and it's empty and all just boarded up on the doors and everything and to know that once this was like a bustling little town with like kids and people working and families and it was supposed to be this amazing place that everybody would come and you know love to stay in and we're in like svalbard we're on a an island in the arctic in the middle of nowhere and this whole society was built here i mean of course it's i guess it's a bit like longer bin but it doesn't have a proper airport it's a lot further away from you know like a main hub but also of course if they would have stayed here i guess maybe they would have built that after a while it's just so crazy and now it's all empty nothing here but it's all left and like the houses are in near not perfect condition but still very good condition considering and like we have a statue here of i want to say it's lianin yes it's not stalin it's lianin double check this it's just and then you have the magnificent noodle glacier in the background just lining this whole place up and it's all empty so we are almost by the start of what they call the gallery so we're gonna hike up the mountain and i'm so excited for this i wanted to do this every single time i've been here but i've never had enough time too so today because i can imagine the view up there is incredible and right now where we're walking there's so much coal on the ground so much and look at this house i wonder what this was before it looks like quite like it was once very nice and a bit fancy but i must say there's like there's no rubbish in that way yes there's a lot of old building materials but there's no like plastic not a lot of it anyway so they're keeping this place very clean which is very nice and our lunch at the hotel was so good the food was amazing the prices are insane it was so cheap but the food was amazing service was incredible the coffee everything they it was just such a good time so i can't wait to come back here more i feel like we should go here a few times per year i haven't been here now in like two years but sometimes that happens but now i'm gonna head over there to go in to this gallery and go all the way up the mountain i'm very excited to see about the view and also about how much cardio this is gonna be let's see okay so i'm gonna leave my backpack down here because it's heavy but it looks quite dark in there so i think i'm gonna bring i think i had a headlamp in here so i'm gonna bring that this is gonna be scary grimm christopher's not coming with us oh my god my beanie is gonna get so dirty here this we're taking this is this working it's such a crappy one it's gonna be good okay some power are you ready for this i think you are christopher you're going to stay down here right yep there's an emergency imagine i don't need a gun do i no no i'm in a mine shaft imagine if there's like a polar bear in there like chilling we only have one gun are you going to take the gun or am i i'll take the signal all right we are ready to go and i'm gonna bring you guys this camera okay so we're heading in here me and grim in this to go up the mountain in a mine shaft is it a mine shaft mine gallery i don't know they called it the gallery why am i getting nervous all right let's rip off the band-aid we're going move it to child faster oh my this is so nice we're gonna have to do this double speed grim if christopher's gonna not get bored the fact that i'm doing this on my own oh my god this is creeping me out oh my god oh my god i usually like i'm not like easily scared but this is freaking me out come here there's so many noises okay and like glass in some places and oh my god a heartbeat of like 4 000. why am i oh my god no here it begins why does it feel like i'm on a roller coaster okay this is so dramatic of me it's just a workout it's just a workout this is epic oh my gosh here it begins this is so cool oh my god grim that is not water to drink sure so oh this is gonna be a workout we're at the first stop look oh my gosh i'm a bit out of breath i'm more worried about how we're gonna walk down this maybe just plant your heels oh it's a good workout okay we have to go do this fast i would say that we are about halfway up or more in 10 minutes and i've identified the most scary thing that is having to go down again it's freaking me out i'm sweating so much and also it's extremely disorientating disorienting huh i'm disoriented because it feels like the whole thing is moving even though i'm sure it's not and like i feel like i'm gonna use my balance all the time but i'm just holding on and sweating my way up there i can i think i can see the top because it feels like we're quite far up but i'm dreading having to go down because i don't know it just it just looks scary okay we're gonna have to keep on going so we get up there and down fast because this is freaking me out pyramidal was considered a good place to be through the 1960s 70s and 80s work in the mines of pyramiden was very popular the workers had a contract period of two years and the wages were decent employment in any of the russian settlements in svalbard was sought after and every job had many applicants but the 1990s are remembered as a terrible time for the russians on svalbard every year the soviet mines on svalbard ran a deficit and trust arctikogul lost money the coal was poor quality and it was not profitable when the soviet crash came the company could not afford to sustain both settlements pyramid and barentsburg there are several reasons for why pyramiden and not barentsburg was chosen to be abandoned although pyramiden was a newer and better maintained city the cold there was almost entirely depleted and trust arctikogul would have had to dig deeper to access another deposit an expensive and impractical endeavor therefore the coal mining in pyramiden was discontinued in 1998 and the village was abandoned oh my gosh i'm regretting this decision okay let's just continue i guess okay oh okay it's just a little bit more but i think we're just gonna stop here because there's something blocking the way up there oh how sweaty look at the view oh my gosh oh my gosh how long 23 minutes so far that's pretty good i feel like i want to go further up but there's something in the way we're gonna have to go check it out i cannot leave without going all the way crim you're doing great we made it oh my gosh 30 minutes to the top oh my god okay this has to be at graham now we have to turn now turn back come can't go further so that's it yeah you did great you're so good wow this was cool just have to go down now oh my god it scares me okay i'm just gonna have to plant your heels just go graham you athlete i'm sorry there's no more for you to hike oh gosh this was cool though such a good workout such a cool place terrifying because it feels like it's going to fall apart but you know oh my god okay let's go this is no problem what was i freaking out about yeah what did you see here wow it's pretty cool you're almost down now pretty looks like we're high up are we not done soon this was super easy of course i was just being dramatic for nothing it just looks scary but it's very very easy it's using maybe muscles that i usually don't use though so i i want to be sore and i'm sweating but i think it's taking like maximum 10 minutes to get down and it took 30 minutes to get up so we're just you know running down here but such a cool experience 10 out of 10 we'll do this again but it's cardio level 10 out of 10. it's a lot of ratings here but yeah okay now i'm going to concentrate on oh we're coming down now this wait no we're not at the bottom oh oh yeah wait yeah this is where it started well this is where the cool entrance was oh my god projects oh look at this let's look at here first wow that was so sweaty i'm dripping but it was a very good workout 45 minutes in total it took us 30 minutes up and 15 minutes down my legs are so out of energy oh my gosh okay but very well done grin he's eating some grass now and that's where we were all the way up there that's where we were that was very successful and i am so sweaty christopher he's here he had a good time waiting for me thank you so much i was sleeping he was sleeping he went like two stairs up into the mineshaft place and just just had a little nap while i was running up there look grim was a trooper of course the athlete i was not allowed to stop because god forbid he didn't get you know fast-paced hike but we did it in 30 minutes up 15 down it's exciting now we're gonna go to the boat i think i'm i'm gonna need a nap and this is the end of this video i love pyramiding i think we are gonna go back in october as well with our boat and visit and stay the night hello october it's spooky i just feel like we have to do this so i want to stay in the hotel and i want to go into the buildings and show you everything i just feel like i'm ready to move to pyramiden and okay maybe not but i want to go there a lot more so that is the plan i hope you enjoyed this video and if you did i would love it if you subscribed and maybe turn on the notification bell and i will see you guys in the next video so thank you so much for watching and being here bye bye
2021-09-08 09:53
